Skeptical Inquirer

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Articles in Nov-Dec 2002 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Microanalytical great, Walter C. McCrone, dies - News and Comment - Obituary
  by Joe Nickell
• A presentation without arguments: Dembski disappoints - William Dembski, intelligent design
  by Mark Perakh
• XTL: Extraterrestrial Life and How to find It - New Books, Etc - Book Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• High Cost of Skepticism - Letter to the Editor
• Let's make ID inclusive! - intelligent design - Letter to the Editor
• Anti-Gravity shield rises again, and the zero-point fringe - News and Comment
  by Robert L. Park
• Hugo Gernsback, skeptical crusader - magazine publisher of 1920s-1930s
  by Ron Miller
• George Hrab's release Vitriol - New Books, Etc - plus Jim Richardson's Gonzo Science - Sound Recording Review
  by Benjamin Radford
• Theories and limits - Letter to the Editor
• Houdini reappears - News and Comment - on U.S. postage stamp - Brief Article
  by Joe Nickell
• Alternative medicine and pseudoscience comments of a biophysicist
  by Vojtech Mornstein
• Unintelligent design - Forum
  by Paul Giles
• Placebo Power - Letter to the Editor
• Psychics wrong about Chandra Levy - News and Comment - Brief Article
  by Benjamin Radford
• Are skeptics cynical? Popular misunderstandings of skepticism
  by Phil Mole
• It's a good thing cows can't fly in Mobile - Forum - good thinking & good science
  by Ralph Estling
• John Edward's 3.3-second disclaimer - Letter to the Editor
• Martin Gardner donates book collection to Center for Inquiry Library - News and Comment - Brief Article
  by Paul Kurtz
• Skeptical about The Skeptical Environmentalist - Book Review
  by Richard M. Fisher
• Econometric modeling, guns, and murder statistics - Follow-Up
  by John R. Lott, Jr.
• Helder's New Age notions - Letter to the Editor
• Psychic pets and pet psychics - Investigative Files
  by Joe Nickell
• Simplified Skepticism Suffers - K.I.S.S. Guide to the Unexplained - Book Review
  by Benjamin Radford
• Ted Goertzel replies to John Lott - Follow-Up - right-to-carry laws and crime
  by Ted Goertzel
• Skeptics' reactions - Letter to the Editor
• The X-Planet: The truth is nowhere in sight - Psychic Vibrations - Nancy Lieder and Zeta Talk; also Unification Church seminars in the spirit world
  by Robert Sheaffer
• Science Best Sellers - Brief Article
• Response to 'The High Cost of Skepticism' - Follow-Up - response to article by Carol Tavris in the July/August 2002 issue
  by Stanley Berent
• Blue babe a bison - Letter to the Editor
• The search for Margery - Notes on a Strange World - medium associated with Houdini
  by Massimo Polidoro
• Denying Evolution: Creationism, Scientism, and the Nature of Science - New Books, Etc - Book Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Reply to Stanley Berent - Follow-Up - article in this issue, p. 61
  by Carol Tavris
• Jefferson and Hume - Letter to the Editor
• Statistical self-deceptions, and when history isn't - Editor's Note - TV pseudodocumentaries - Editorial
• Politicizing the Virgin Mary: The instance of the Madonna of Medjugorje
  by Raymond A. Eve
• Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers - New Books, Etc - Book Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Wiseman replies to Schwartz - Follow-Up - response to "After-Death Communications: A Misleading Critique," by Gary E. Schwartz, in September/October 2002 issue - Brief Article
  by Richard Wiseman
• Giant footprints - Letter to the Editor
• Washington Post commemoration of 1952 UFO sighting omits telling details of report that explained radar blips - News and Comment
  by Phillip J. Klass
• Hypothesis testing and the nature of skeptical investigations
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment - New Books, Etc - Book Review
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Postmortem on case history - Letter to the Editor
• Quackery, not Holism - Letter to the Editor